If, as starting graduate students, you are following my first key advice of reading on a regular basis scientific manuscripts related to your field of

Random thoughts about conducting scientific research, supervising students and «toys» that make creative activities even funnier…
If, as starting graduate students, you are following my first key advice of reading on a regular basis scientific manuscripts related to your field of
There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about
Every meeting brings about few presentations for which the same mistakes seems to happen again and again. Just coming back from a major conference in
It happens every so often that you might need to explain a complex concept or present a vast amount of data in a short amount
This got to be the most twisted line of thought in all of this smartphone patent war I have seen up to now in order
Your a physicist and sitting at a conference for which the speaker is a talking about a specialize biology topic. This person is going on
I always wondered what would be the single, most important advice I could give a new graduate student who is looking forward to have his
For all of you out there, here is a positively inspiring (TED) talk about scientific research… E.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists | Video on
During a recent group meeting, one of the student was making a comment regarding the document really bad powerpoint by Seth Godin. Her point was
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This semester I thought an undergraduate laboratory to last year engineering students. These will be entering the job market (or pursue graduate studies) in a
In a discussion with a postdoc of mine, she was telling me that she observed that advisors are of three types: opener, middle cruncher and
In the previous post, I was directing interested students to the free book Organizing Creativity. There are a few more excellent resources on the web
The majority of graduate students that I had the chance to supervised (yes I consider student supervision as a core mission of being a researcher